donation

donation

[dō′nā·shən]

(mycology)

In conjugation, a process involving a nonconjugative plasmid and a conjugative plasmid in which the latter provides the missing conjugative function to the former so that the former may be transferred.

These results are comparable with a similar study using a sample of blood donors suggesting that the stronger the participant's identity as a blood donor, the more often he/she donated blood (Callero, Howard, Piliavin, 1987).

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